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Nuance is the leading provider of speech and imaging solutions for businesses and consumers around the world. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses experience Nuance by calling directory assistance, requesting account information, dictating patient records, telling a navigation system their destination, or digitally reproducing documents that can be shared and searched. With more than 2000 employees worldwide, we are committed to make the user experience more enjoyable by transforming the way people interact with information and how they create, share and use documents. Making each of those experiences productive and compelling is what Nuance is about.

- Helping in development of the linguistic processing components - Design of text corpora for recording and testing - Processing speech data - Creating and tuning the TTS voice - Testing and productization of the TTS voice

Requirements: - Native or near native speaker of one of them above-mentioned languages - Speak English fluently (working language) - Have some experience working in speech/NLP/linguistics either in academia or in industry - Have some computational ability - no programming is required, but you should be comfortable working with MS Windows - If you know some AWK or Perl, it would be an advantage - Willing to work in Merelbeke (near Ghent in Belgium) for the duration of the contract

Offer:

- A 3-5 months contract - Training in all aspects of the job, and you will be working with a talented and committed team - An exciting job with an innovative and performing international company - The opportunity to work in an enthusiastic, supportive team - Competitive remuneration package - Relocation, travel and accommodation assistance

To apply, please submit your resume or CV and a brief statement describing your experience and abilities to caroline.desseauxnuance.com or Deanna.roenuance.com. We will consider only electronic submissions. We are looking forward to receiving your application!